*** Posted by Rapier ***
Hello Faulken,

Sorry if I miss-understood your earlier question, nice to hear from you again. I just wanted to point out to you that you have made a very good question about the HUD symbology. I have often wondered myself if there was a symbol to make CCIP bombing a little easier. I think that CCIP bombing was a basic idea of bombing at low altitude for better accuracy. When you think about this it is suited well because most bombing done using CCIP in done at low level really, like when you drop CBU and runway denial bombs. I think that it is the same in the sim as the real Aircraft becuase it would not be worth classifying something like this as I am sure you would agree.

Basically I would not use CCIP bombing at high altitudes for many reasons. Firstly the bombing will not be as accurate as the pilot would like becuase we must think of the conditions and our surroundings even when bombing, there are always cross wind's to consider even for bomb's as most bombs used for CCIP are not that smart, they are the basic bomb's like the one's used in the second world war, apart from being designed in a better way I suppose the computer help's alot when bombing in this mode. Secondly I have noticed a way off target accuracy if I try to drop these at high altitude, it will sometimes not allow me to drop the weapon if I am flying the wrong perameters to the target. CCIP can do some strange things. For high alt bombing I use CCRP as you can see the target designator come up around the target you locked up so you can be more accurate from high alt.

It would be nice as you mentioned to include a TD box in F4 to aid the less experienced so I dont see why Microprose cant do this. If you are a beta tester for F4 then you have a higher chance of MP listening to you so it might be a good idea for you to do mention that to them.

Keep up the good work on the beta team, I hope 1.07 will be a major improvement!

Kind Regards

Rapier